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James Franklin Frank Sawyer (May 1 1899 – 1979) was an American Depression-era bank robber and prison escapee. An associate of Jim Clark Ed Davis and other fellow Oklahoma bandits he was a participant in countless bank robberies throughout Kansas and Oklahoma between 1917 to 1933. He was wrongfully imprisoned for a 1932 bank robbery in Fort Scott Kansas and spent almost 40 years in prison before he was pardoned by Governor Robert Docking in 1969.